20 Things You Didn’t Know About Galaxy Quest
6. Sigourney Weaver Says The Original Cut Was Rated R
According to producer Lindsay Collins, Sigourney Weaver confided in her at a lunch meeting that the reason for the cuts was that the original edit had received an R rating due to the swearing and increased sexual content.
Collins was desperate to see it, but by this point the story is well into ‘he said she said’ territory. An adults-only cut of the movie may not exist now, even if it existed then - the rumours about the supposed R rating don’t necessarily mean that there was a specific cut that actually got rated R, and may only mean that such a cut would have received such a rating had the film been edited that way.
Still, the numerous abrupt edits - Rainn Wilson’s disappearance, Weaver’s sudden cleavage and those random, barely concealed dubs to conceal swearing do tend to imply that the final cut was swift and at the eleventh hour.